Researchers are using unique expertise and state-of-the-art capabilities to test the fuels of the future.
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) conducted the world's first safety test on a high burnup fast reactor fuel in more than 20 years at its Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) facility.
Lightbridge Corporation announced today that it has reached “a critical milestone” in the development of its extruded solid fuel technology.
Data from spent nuclear fuel rods will be crucial to the development and licensing of new fuel technologies.
After two decades, laboratory reopens for spent fuel testing
For the first time in two decades, Idaho National Laboratory, the nation’s nuclear energy laboratory, has received a shipment of used next-generation light water reactor fuel from a commercial nuclear power plant to support research and testing.
Westinghouse Electric Company provided 25 irradiated nuclear fuel rods, including accident-tolerant fuel, to Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for testing and examination, a critical step toward qualification of the new design.
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have a new experimental tool to study nuclear fuel under simulated loss of coolant accident (LOCA) conditions in INL’s Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility.
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory have used the lab's Transient Reactor Test Facility to perform the first test of its kind to be carried out in the USA for more than 35 years.
Idaho National Laboratory performs new experiment that shows what happens to nuclear fuel when there is a loss of coolant accident.
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have completed initial testing on a newly developed fuel test capsule that is expected to provide crucial performance data for sodium-cooled fast reactors.
THOR is part of a joint project between the United States and Japan used to perform transient tests on fast reactor fuels
New experiment device will be used to perform the world’s first transient tests on fast reactor fuels in more than two decades.
Positioning nuclear power to combat climate change requires the rollout of advanced reactors to replace carbon-emitting power generation. That necessity, and its urgency, is reflected in recent budget proposals for the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy. Part of that proposed funding focuses on deploying new fuel technologies.